How to directly access your computer’s desktop with your smartphone

Google has launched an incredibly new mobile app that allows Android users the ability to remotely access their PC or Mac desktop via one’s smartphone or tablet device.

Called the “Chrome Remote Desktop app,” the program was launched this past week to much fanfare. It’s a build off the Chrome Remote Desktop app launched in 2011, which allowed users to remotely access their at-home desktop from another laptop or computer. The service was free then, and it’s mobile app version is free now, which is amazing considering the fees tied to other, similar remote-desktop programs out there.